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Solutions for the cost of getting fuel to the front lines? The fully burdened cost of fuel is blood and dollars. The solutions are surprising, cheap and effective - and life saving.

The Department of Defense embraces energy efficiency and renewable power to save money and keep soldiers out of harms way.

Peter Byck about his film carbon nation

Green Jobs activist, Van Jones, speaks at a solar installation at a home in Richmond, CA. The project is a joint effort by Grid Alternatives, working to make solar power accessible to low income neighborhoods and Richmond Solar, training youths from the neighborhood, to be solar installers.

Peter Byck is a professor at Arizona State University, in both the School of Sustainability and the Cronkite School of Journalism. His first documentary, Garbage, won the South by Southwest Film Festival.  His second documentary, carbon nation,  has screened all over the world and won the Clarion Award.

Richard Teague is a Rangeland Specialist at Texas A&M.

Russ Conser is an Innovation Specialist, Shell Game Changer.

Peter Byck, the co-writer and director of carbon nation, didn't put together a film that presents the pros and cons of climate change and carbon usage. Instead, he put together a fact-based challenge to non-believers.

The answer to climate change is in the soils, with the cows.

Meet the carbon cowboys - men and women who are reinventing the way we graze - regenerating their land, their soils, their lives.

Filmmaker Peter Byck and leading Grass Fed Beef rancher/scientist Allen Williams presented a new 12 minute film, soil carbon cowboys. Byck and Allen will then discuss the ASU*SoilCarbon Nation's regenerative grazing research plans to measure potential benefits: carbon sequestration, animal health, water infiltration & retention, methane & nitrous oxide emissions, insect, wildlife, fungi & bacteria populations and rancher well-being.

Peter Byck is the director, producer and writer of carbon nation. Byck has also just joined the faculty at Arizona State University, in both the School of Sustainability and the Cronkite School of Journalism. During the filming and editing of carbon nation, Byck has met and collaborated with the leading minds from the world of climate, clean energy, military applications and land use. Byck’s contacts span the globe – keeping him up-to-date on the fast moving frontier of the clean energy revolution.

Cars and coal may get most of the attention, but one of the biggest contributors to climate change is the food industry. Some think that this situation could be radically changed—instead of just cutting agriculture's carbon footprint, maybe we can use agriculture to reverse climate change.

A small town Arkansas police department trades in Crown Vics for hybrid cars in the latest carbon nation/ASU short doc.

The Arkadelphia Arkansas Police Dept. needed 10 new cop cars - they chose Toyota Camry Hybrids. Some cops were happy, others not so much. See what happens when the old school meets the new.

Will Harris, owner of White Oak Pastures, tells us his evolution from industrial to regenerative farmer.

Even if you doubt the severity of the impact of climate change or just don't buy it at all, this is still a compelling and relevant film that illustrates how SOLUTIONS to climate change also address other social, economic and national security issues.

Professor at Arizona State University School of Sustainability joins MidPoint to discuss his documentary, carbon nation and solutions to the growing worldwide carbon footprint.

Peter Byck, producer/director of <i>carbon nation</i>, discusses his film which he says is not about global warming; it is about "global warming solutions."

Peter Byck, producer/director of carbon nation, discusses his film which he says is not about global warming; it is about "global warming solutions."

Carbon cowboys are the men and women who are grazing cattle that mimics how bison herds grazed The Great Plains of North America, building some of the world’s deepest and richest soils.

Spencer Fornaciari of the MacGuffin Film Podcast interviews Peter Byck, director of the documentary Carbon Nation.

Peter Byck, documentarian and college instructor at Arizona State University.

Peter Byck, Documentarian and college professor at Arizona State University, joins Aaron in part three of this special three part series to talk about his shot film called Soil Carbon Cowboys. In this film he explains a new more efficient and healthier way for farmers to raise better crops which also increases their financial profits.

Carbon Nation is a movie on climate change SOLUTIONS. We had the chance to visit the Gymnasium Kirchhof in Wilhelmsburg with director Peter Byck as well as showing the movie at the Jacobs University in Bremen.

In this interview, Peter Byck talks about his motivation to do such a movie, how people react to it and how his perspective on the future of clean energy is going to be.

At the 2013 Climate, Mind, & Behavior Symposium filmmaker Peter Byck, director of Carbon Nation illuminates the common ground we share and the potential to find consensus and push environmental agendas with those who may not necessarily believe climate change is happening.

From soil carbon cowboys

From soil carbon cowboys

Filmmaker and ASU Professor Peter Byck took his cameras to ranches across the country to talk to cattle farmers who are reinventing ranching in order to create more sustainable soil and grasslands.